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May-31-12
 | | Honza Cervenka: "Guelph and Ghibelline"
(Chess Historical Sci fi Thriller)
Boris Gelfand invents a time machine and visits medieval Florence, which is just in the middle of violent political strife between the Church party and the party of Empire. Boris plays a game of chess with Farinata degli Uberti and beats him, then he gives some free lessons on Giuoco Piano to some Church party disciples who are so grateful that they decide to take his name to designate their party. Later Dante lauds him a lot in his Divine Comedy and gives him Beatrice as companion in Paradise, where he visits Lasker, Capablanca and Tal, who promise to be his seconds in the next match for the World Chess champion title. Later in the ninth ring of hell Boris finds Farinata to play chess with Kirsam and Danailov. |
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Jun-01-12
| | Honza Cervenka: <"Oll the President's Men"
True story of Ossip Bernstein and Timothy Woodward> Of course, I should add that the picture is directed by Tomasz Pakula and that we will see there as featured characters among others Rodney Nixon, Arnaud Colson, Scott Kissinger, Jim H Dean, Bernard W Barker, John Mitchell, G. Gordon Liddy, Adam Hunt, George Sturgis, J McCord, E Martinez, Ron Ziegler, and a lot of people from R Washington Evening Post Ladder. Of course, Bernstein and Woodward will enjoy assistance of enigmatic Deep Thought (Computer), and famous "Katie Graham 's gonna get her tit caught in a big fat wringer" scene will be there too. |
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Jun-11-12
| | Honza Cervenka: E.T. the Extra-Torrestrial
Biographical story of Eugenio Torre. |
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| Jun-22-12 | | I play the Fred: "The King and I" - Documentary wherein <IplaytheFred> describes his typical endgame |
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Jan-15-13
 | | HeMateMe: One of the more active older players? Good luck in Holland, Mr. Romanishin. |
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| Jan-15-13 | | fisayo123: No pic? such a shame. |
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Feb-15-13
 | | mistermac: Albertan posted a pic on p#7.
Mr Romanishin looks a thoroughly affable man, I must say. |
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Feb-15-13
 | | perfidious: <mistermac> Early in Romanishin's international career, there was a piece which covered one of his tournament victories. While I don't recall whether it was in Chess Life or BCM, that article noted that, for all his ferocity at the board, he was very much a gentleman away from it and quite a decent man to meet, unlike some other top players of the time. |
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| May-19-13 | | wordfunph: Inside Chess once dubbed him as GM Oleg "Never Say Draw" Romanishin. |
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Sep-23-13
 | | alexmagnus: Funny: first 9 games here are decisive, 8 of them losses. Did Romanishin not win at all when he was a teenager? :D:D:D |
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| Nov-01-13 | | RedShield: From Here to Eternity - Anna Ushenina's latest instructional DVD shows how to mate with B+N vs K. The Bitter Tea of Jennifer Shahade - our heroine battles patriarchy, the scales and her aversion to artificial sweeteners. |
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| Dec-19-13 | | waustad: Here's a pic from when he was young in Lviv with Mikhalchishin and Beliavsky: http://en.chessbase.com/portals/4/f... |
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Dec-19-13
 | | keypusher: <waustad: Here's a pic from when he was young in Lviv with Mikhalchishin and Beliavsky: http://en.chessbase.com/portals/4/f>... Ah, to be young and in Lviv! |
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Apr-11-14
 | | tamar: "The Latvian Railway Man"
Vassily Ivanchuk is brilliant in the title role, showing his critics that revenge is never a straight line. |
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| Mar-05-15 | | tessathedog: Gee...I sought out this page because I spotted GM Romanishin playing here at Bad Worishofen and really wanted to read up on him...only to have to wade through pages of totally irrelevant postings. I can see that they are amusing, but surely there is a better place for them? is it not disrespectful to a prominent Grandmaster to litter his pages with material of no relevance to him or his achievements? I do not mean to offend anyone, but would like people to reflect a little on how trivial postings might be compromising the pages of highly esteemed players. |
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| Mar-05-15 | | torrefan: We apologize. That's a very rare occurrence here at CG. It won't happen again. |
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| Mar-05-15 | | zanzibar: Here's an interview, and I believe the picture from the broken link above can be found there as well: http://www.grandcoach.com/en/coach/... |
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| Mar-06-15 | | tessathedog: Many thanks Zanzibar for that fantastic Romanishin interview! Exactly what I was looking for. I really appreciate your taking the trouble to post it. Thank you. Now, my immediate ambition is to try and get a photo with Romanishin at the closing ceremony tomorrow. I am glad to read in the interview he speaks English, so he will understand my request...I couldn't manage it in Russian! |
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| May-16-15 | | TheFocus: <A win gives one a feeling of self-affirmation, and success - a feeling of self-expression, but only a sensible harmonization between these urges can bring really great achievements in chess> - Oleg Romanishin. |
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| Jan-10-16 | | TheFocus: Happy Birthday, Oleg!! |
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| Oct-07-16 | | diagonal: priceless picture from the Isle of Man Open 2016: https://www.facebook.com/iominterna... (maybe it takes a second until to the corresponding photo) His master's voice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0z...: "A sit down with Oleg Romanishin", video interview with a living legend, recorded at the Univé Chess Open in 2014 by Chess.com |
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| Jan-10-17 | | diagonal: Happy birthday, Oleg Romanishin. Good health, best wishes for you and many more inspiring Open Festivals to come! Forty years ago, he achieved his biggest success, winning the international <October Revolution 60th Anniversary> tournament at Leningrad in 1977, together with Tal (Romanishin best on tie-break), ahead of 3. Smyslov, 4./5. Vaganian and Karpov, then reigning World Champion, etc. (18 players): October Revolution 60th Anniversary (1977) In 1977, Romanishin was ranked third in the annual Chess Oscar Award (only behind Karpov and Korchnoi, ahead of 4. Tal, 5. Miles, 6. Larsen, 7. Spassky, 8. Hort, 9. Portisch, 10. Petrosian). |
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| Jan-10-17 | | diagonal: Born 10 January 1952 in Lviv. Ukrainian Grandmaster (1976). Graduated in foreign languages. <European Junior Champion 1972-73 at Groningen>. Member of the Soviet team which won the World Student Team Championship in 1974 and 1976. Member also of the team which won the match USSR-Rest of the World in 1984 (as substitute player with three different appearances). A participant in the Olympiad of 1978 for the USSR (team silver behind Hungary) and from 1992 until 2000 consecutively for Ukraine (one silver and two bronze team medals). In the European Team Championship, he won in 1977, 1980 and 1983 six gold medals, three times in a row with the USSR (both team and individual board gold). In nine appearances in the USSR Championships between 1974 and 1983, his best place was Vice-Champion in 1975 (+7=5-3) shared with Boris Gulko, Mikhail Tal, and Rafael Vaganian, half a point behind Tigran Petrosian, and clear third in 1981 (behind joint winners Psakhis and Kasparov). Notable tournament victories (selection): Odessa (USSR-championship semifinal) 1974, Novi Sad 1975, Yerevan International 1976 (ahead of joint Gulko and Savon), <Dortmund 1976> (ahead of Flesch, followed by Miles), <Hastings 1976-77> outright, <Leningrad (October Revolution 60th Anniversary)> 1977 (best on tie-break, tied with Tal, ahead of Smyslov, Vaganian and reigning World Champion Anatoly Karpov), Gausdal (Open) 1979 clear first, <Polanica Zdroj (Rubinstein Mem) 1980> as clear first, Lvov 1981 (joint with Tal), Jurmala 1983 (+9=4), <Moscow International 1985> outright (above Vaganian, Tukmakov, Sveshnikov, Geller, Razuvaev, Polugaevsky, Dolmatov, Ivkov, Ftacnik, Speelman), <Reggio Emilia 1985-86> equal first (with Andresson as best on tie-break and Ljubojevic), Yerevan International 1986, Debrecen GM 1990, Gyor (HUN-ch Open) 1990 finishing a clear two points above the rest, <Polanica Zdroj (Rubinstein Mem) 1992> (ahead of Korchnoi), Debrecen GM 1992, followed by some wins of moderate strong or smaller events on the grandmaster chess circuit, eg. Solin / Split GM 2004, Calcutta (Open, Alekhine Chess Club) 2004 (Abhijit Kunte, India was first on tie-break, Romanishin alongside the co-winners Aleksej Aleksandrov, Belarus, Ni, Hua, China, Ehsam, Ghaem Maghami, Iran, and Surya Sekhar Ganguly, India), Roma Hotel Petra 2005, Heviz, Hungary, GM Mini tournament 2010 (joint with Miton), Roseto International Chess Festival (Open) 2010, clear first, <Warsaw (MetLife Najdorf Mem, Open)> 2012 clear first. At Tilburg in 1979, Romanishin was clear runner-up half a point only behind Karpov (and ahead of many great players of its time, namely Portisch, Sax, Larsen, Spassky, Timman, Sosonko, Huebner, Hort, Kavalek, and Smyslov on sole last place in this twelve player round robin super-tournament). At Dortmund in 1982, Romanishin took sole second (after Hort). However, Oleg Romanishin has never made it into the FIDE Candidates but was a PCA Candidate in 1993 (via PCA Qualifying Tournament in Groningen, then losing in New York 1994 the quarter-final to Anand who won 5:2, and went on to win the whole cycle 1993-1995 to become Challenger of Kasparov in 1995). Romanishin remains a regular competitor in Open Festivals. Best Elo rating: 2615 in 1993 (FIDE), 2735 in 1975 (SONAS chessmetrics) Best Elo ranking: 11th, January 1977 (FIDE then yearly list), 5th, January 1975 (SONAS monthly list) |
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| Jan-10-21 | | Ironmanth: Happy birthday, Grandmaster! |
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| Dec-04-24 | | James Keziah Delaney: Once upon a time in Linares |
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